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  Something which was much in evidence in Barcelona, as we saw the high anxiety of Verstappen, when he was repeatedly confronted with his car's DRS problem.  While Leclerc, for atleast the second time in the season, failed to deliver the win he had been expected to achieve. I seen reports citing Fernando Alonso saying that 'it is about the car and not the driver, or, rather, I think he is arguing, the 'special skills of the racer.' Well, it is very likely that when you have cars of similar performance and racers of similar or equal racing skills and competence.  The comparative success of each of them can be attributed to factors such as luck/bad luck, racing strategy, consistency/inconsistency of performance, and racing acumen. So, now that Hamilton's car has been brought upto this level of performance, we should be seeing Hamilton deploying his considerable his racing acumen to begin winning races again.  And who knows; probably 'hammering' his way up the

  So, having endured the Miami 'Americanesque' Grand Prix, it was time to return to authentic Formula 1 grand prix territory, in the form of the Spanish Grand Prix of the 2022 Season.  And probably needless to say; it did not disappoint.  It was a race which was filled with  the right amount, if not exceeded the levels of adrenaline, unpredictability, gladiatorial challenges and excitement we should or could expect from the best of Formula 1 races.  Probably the biggest missing ingredient we could have hoped for - even though it was, arguably, not needed - was the absence of any VSC or Safety Car episodes.  Yes, it would have been helpful, probably mostly Team Mercedes and more specifically, Lewis Hamilton.   Who, having gotten caught up in a wheel-to-wheel involuntary embrace with Magnussen in the first half of the first lap, found himself trailing at the pack of the convoy, with atleast a wee bit of damage to Car 44.  As the race evolved, however, the incident provided Hamilt

  .. to live with myself, if I were to find, or admit that have misled 'the flock'?     After all, religions faiths are, indeed, one of the central pillars of most, if not all of our human societies.  Even if the level of  belief and devotion, at given times, might, like the tide of the ocean, ebbs and flows.  Or, in some societies, even steadily decline as 'irrational belief' gives way to increased scientific dominance and intellectual enlightenment. But, is it enough?  Can it ever be enough for men and women of the cloth of any theistic religious faiths.   To use the cultural imperative, the fact that 'we were born into our religious faiths, which is an important part of us', to explain away or mitigate their culpability, if they have mislead their flock? I mean, although it would be a credible defence to argue that men and women of the cloth are simply keeping the customs, traditions and cultures of our ancestors alive.   By continuing to preach and teach the

  Life, it could be said, is both a blessing and a curse. It is the fate of all contemplative primate to have experience of both the blessing and the curse that life, living is. So, what have I, in my decades of living, learnt about living? Let me begin by briefly explaining my concept and experience of this thing called 'life' , as I have so far lived it. So, for me, 'life' is that finite but limited extendable conscious space between the birth of a human and his/her death or transition from organic to inorganic matter. Experientially, life is for living, but how shall or should we live it? Is there any specifically way in which us humans should be living, and if so, what or how is that, and who or what formulated the concept of how we should live? In having an understanding of how us humans should live, we can begin to form a view from observing how us Earthlings, both higher order lower hierarchy primates and other creatures live. Or we can look to the philosophical

  A Very Big Congratulations to Team Red Bull and Team ferrari and Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz for making it to P.1 and P.2 and 3, consecutively, in the 2022 Miami Grand Prix. So, what is to be said about the Miami Grand Prix? Well, probably a lot could be said about it, including the fact that Team Red Bull to it as their opportunity to progress their claim on the 2022 Drivers Championship.  While Team Mercedes opted to using it to improve their performance and competitiveness in the Drivers and Constructors Championship.  Yes, it is the case that Hamilton has not yet began to display any real competitiveness in the 2022 season, but he has, during the MGP, showed signs of making the necessary transformation. As much as Car 24 equip him to do.  Yes, some might or might not be arguing about whether Team Mercedes had deployed the best racing strategies for Hamilton and Russell.  And yet, that is not something that should be exercising anybody's intellect at pr

  The much promised and carefully nurtured attempt at post-Soviet Union rapprochement between the Russian Federation and the West, has spectacularly blown up within 3 months of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  And, with it has gone, it appears, all the certainties we had or have about the improbability of nuclear weapons being used by either of the main protagonists.   As the fear of mutual destruction of the both is enough to prevent the one from using such weapons against the other. So, also, do we no longer hear our leaders, our politicians speaking of endeavouring to establish peace with Russia, ever.  But only of defeating it militarily, economically, politically, morally, and, of, course, building a Nato enforced Iron Curtain around it. For people who had and were living in the pre-1989 Cold War epoch, it is no mean feat to comprehend and take on-board seismic transformation which has been evolving in 'worldology' since 5th February 2022. So, it is quite understandable i

  So, well might it be said that we, the inhabitants of Planet Earth, are living in different times today. It was only a matter of a few months ago, say probably the beginning of 2022, when we knew where we stand.  We had a certain amount of security about what is likely to happen and what is unlikely to happen.  We could predict that, though bad things could happen, they were unlikely to happen.  Why? Because we, us humans, have come to believe that we have achieved and were living in 'the Age of Reason.'  That we have become rational and enlightened humans. That we would not 'destroy our world in order to save it.'  That pyrrhic act is not one which is popular amongst our species.  We believed that the time when the guardians of 'western democracy, liberalism and much vaunted  civilization' would terrify the people of the West with the then dreaded refrain - "the Russians are Coming", had long been put to rest for the past 3 or so decades. The more a